BIOGRAPHY:
Kevin's musical roots started in the 1980s when he first started buying vinyl. His passion for disco, jazz funk and rare groove then led to him buying his first pair of turntables in the early 90s. With the explosion of the the New York and New Jersey Gospeal house scene, he started to play out at intimate house parties and clubs in the West London scene. His main influences during this period included such luminaries as Tony Humphries, Frankie Knuckles, Kerri Chandler, David Camacho, Paul 'Trouble' Anderson, Blaze, Ann Nesby, Sabrynaah Pope, Victor Simonelli and Masters at Work to name but a few.
In the studio, Kevin's collaboration with New York's Victor Simonelli "Hammond Heat" received plenty of support and club-play from the likes of Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez, DJ Spinna and Terry Hunter. The track has recently also had remixes from Legendary producer and remix king, John Morales.
His follow up to Hammond Heat, kept Kevin's profile very much on track within the soulful house scene on release in 2016, entitled "The Sax Track," it's deep jazzy groove featured in the Traxsource top 20 bestsellers. Since then Kevin's releases have included "Flute Fiyah," and "We've got to believe' (once more alongside Victor Simonelli) "I just can't get enough of your love" and his remix of house music legend Byron Stingily's "Having You". At the time of writing, future Kevin Fernando releases lined up including titles for Bassline Records & West Side Records as well as number of DJ only and vinyl release disco edits.
Away from the studio and back in the clubs... Kevin co-promotes the Soul Damn Funky club night in Brighton UK, playing soulful, deep and gospel house alongside high quality headline DJ's every month. Recent guests at the club have included the legendary Paul "Trouble" Anderson, Richard Earnshaw and Kevin's production partner, Victor Simonelli.
He also continues to DJ regularly across London, spinning house, disco, jazzfunk, soul, reggae, rare groove and everything in between. 2017 saw Kevin fulfil a summer residency for disco legend John Morales at his "Boogie Nights" while other London gigs have included "Back 4 Love," "The Loft," "Troubled Soul" & "Bump n Hustle,". International DJ duties have seen him visit Switzerland, France, Colombia, Thailand and Sri Lanka in recent years.
Kevin's 'Soul Damn Funky' crew released their first compilation album on Traxsource.com. The album "New York Classics Volume 1." features a bespoke collection of influential dance music from the early 90s. The sounds that drive Kevin's soulful DJ sets week in week out. The follow up was the release of "Soul Damn Funky presents Inhouse Volume 1." A fat compilation of deep, soulful and funky beats from the InHouse Records label produced by the Legendary Todd Terry.
Relocating from London to Sri Lanka in the autumn of 2017, Kevin continues to make moves with his productions... Works with Moné, Byron Stingily, Ronnie Canada and Victor Simonelli are all in the pipeline and his new base location in Asia allows him to bring his sound to a new audience, through events and the Soul Therapy artist agency.
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THE LEGENDARY PAUL TROUBLE ANDERSON (LONDON, U.K.)
Trouble was Instrumental in the London music scene, and helped making clubs like Crackers, Spats, The Embassy, Global Village and Electric Ballroom Legendary.
In the mid 80’s he championed His ‘Trouble Funk Sound‘ and brought his sublime blend of dance music to the Warehouse scene.
1985 he was asked to join Kiss and found the prospect of promoting dance music on-air an exciting one. That is when he developed his creativity and skill. To his fans, Paul has an amazing ability to make you want to move, the way he makes the music come alive and his brilliant mixing skillsBringing the Trouble Funk sound to the masses, Paul Trouble Anderson was also one of the first DJs to play House music in London. He joined Kiss FM in 1985 and, after it went legal in 1990, took over the prime time Saturday night spot. “Trouble’s Original Mix Show” lasted 8 years and inspired a generation of music lovers.
JOHN MORALES (New York - US)
In 1975, while being DJ for a few years in local Bronx clubs, John Morales realised that he wanted to make some of his records last longer in time, back then most were in the 3/4 minutes range... So by use of his TEAC 71/2 and a box of razor blades John started splicing tape for endless hours and so became most probably one the first DJ to create the 'extended mix' (or 'remix' in its original form). In doing so he realised also that he could achieve a similar thing by cutting, slicing and taping parts from different recordings and so was born the basis for his (deadly) medleys. John says "I can still see the 100's of edits zoom by every-time I play the tape".
John Morales started to release some of his reel to reel edits, medleys and remixes to Acetate via the Sunshine Sound (a NYC studio where DJ's could bring their reel to reel tapes and have acetate copies cut one at a time), so that he and later anyone could play these tracks at clubs. Greg Carmichael gave him his first mixing job after hearing some of his Sunshine Acetate mixes and these first two official mixes made him famous: 'Dance and Shake Your Tambourine' for Universal Robot Band and the classic from Inner Life: 'I'm Caught Up".
However many of his early mixes and edits, even officially released, were and remains uncredited and so might not appear in his discography ! John has been working for numerous of acts and has been involved in over 500 songs. Both on his own and as part of John Morales & Sergio Munzibai (M & M Productions) with Sergio Munzibai. John Morales is truly one of the most crucial originator of the extended mix, remix and re-edit idea, anyone in that field own him tribute.
VICTOR SIMONELLI (New York - US)
Victor Simonelli's name is synonymous with the cutting edge of the Dance Music scene. Simonelli is one of the New York’s finest and most prolific DJ's. He was also one of the early pioneers of the unique NYC underground dance music movement that has now become a phenomenon it its own right and religiously followed by the clubbing faithful the world over. A producer/re-mixer, song writer, record label owner, and highly sought after DJ, are just four facets of this multi-talented young man. His discography of production, writing. mixing and editing credits reads like a "Who's Who!
Victor has spent his entire lifetime committed and devoted to music, making his own inimitable contribution in DJ'ing, production, mixing and song-writing. It is his unique sound of uplifting and spiritual music that has propelled him to the forefront of the Dance scene, and acknowledged him with the credit of being one of its leading exponents.
